The making of memory in the Middle Ages / / edited by Lucie Dolezalova.

• Superior document: Later medieval Europe, v. 4
• TeilnehmendeR: Dolezalova, Lucie.
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Later medieval Europe ; v. 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (524 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Memory in the Middle Ages has received particular attention in recent decades; yet; the topic remains difficult to grasp and the research on it rather fragmented. This book gathers particular case studies on memory in different parts of medieval Europe and in a variety of fields including literature...

Table of Contents

• Revisiting memory in the Middle Ages (introduction) / Lucie Dolezalova and Tamas Visi
• Communal memory of the distributed author : applicability of the connectionist model of memory to the study of traditional narratives / Slavica Rankovic.
• pt. 1. Storing and recuperating knowledge
• The art of memory in practice
• Writing the memory of the virtues and vices in Johannes Sintram's (d. 1450) preaching aids / Kimberly Rivers
• Memory, meditation, and preaching : a fifteenth-century memory machine in Central Europe (the text Nota hanc figuram composuerunt doctores ... /Pro aliquali intelligentia ...) / Farkas Gabor Kiss
• The staging of memory : ars memorativa and the spectacle of imagination in late medieval preaching in Poland / Rafal Wojcik
• On mistake and meaning : scinderationes fonorum in medieval artes memoriae, mnemonic verses, and manuscripts / Lucie Dolezalova
• Mnemonic aids
• The verse Bible as aide-memoire / Greti Dinkova-Bruun
• Exhibete membra vestra : verbal and visual enthymeme as late medieval mnemotechnics / Laura Iseppi De Filippis
• The late medieval summa Iovis as a case study for the use of poems as mnemonic aids / Rudiger Lorenz
• Pseudo-apocryphal dialogue as a tool for the memorization of scholastic wisdom : the farewell of Christ to Mary and the Liber de vita Christi by Jacobus / Peter Toth
• The Old Norse kenning as a mnemonic figure / Bergsveinn Birgisson.
• pt. 2. Remembering and forgetting the past
• Literary strategies
• The landscape as a memory construction in the Latin Petrarch / Francesco Stella
• Posthumous messages : memory, romance, and the Morte d'Arthur / Jon Whitman
• "And nothing will be wasted" : actualization of the past in Caesarius of Heisterbach's Dialogus miraculorum / Victoria Smirnova
• Social contexts
• The Latin vocabulary of memory in medieval Hungary / Elod Nemerkenyi
• The construction of memory and the display of social bonds in the Life of Corpus Christi Fraternity from Sibiu Hermannstadt, Nagyszeben / Carmen Florea
• Props of memory, triggers of narration : time and space in medieval Jewish hagiography / Lucia Raspe
• Individual versus collective memories
• Anselm of Laon in the twelfth-century schools : between fama and memoria / Cedric Giraud
• Memory and hagiography : the formation of the memory of three thirteenth-century female saints / David Falvay
• Dixit quod non recordatur : memory as proof in inquisitorial trials (early fourteenth-century France) / Irene Bueno
• Forgetting
• Peasants' revolts memories : damnatio memoriae or hidden memories? / Vincent Challet
• Remembering and forgetting the Sabians : Moses Maimonides, Moses Narboni, and Eleazar Eilenburg / Tamas Visi
• Constructing the past
• The past as a precedent : crusade, reconquest, and twelfth-century memories of a Christian Iberia / William J. Purkis
• Memory of the past and Old Norse identity / Else Mundal
• In memoriam defunctorum : visual arts as devices of memory / Elena Bartlova.